Movies like Safe House (2025)
The best movies like Safe House (2025) are Assault on VA-33 (2021), Die Hard (1988) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). If Safe House hooked you with its action and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNobody (2021)7.9/10 from 8,914 votes
- NewestThe Beast (2026)Released 2026
Assault on VA-33 (2021)
Decorated army veteran Jason Hill is on a routine visit to the local VA hospital when organized terrorists infiltrate the building and take hostages, including a decorated general, and Hill’s wife. The highly trained veteran is outnumbered and the last line of defense, taking on a building full of armed insurgents before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDie Hard (1988)
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOlympus Has Fallen (2013)
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape Plan (2013)
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSafehouse (2023)
After Carla’s brother is murdered, she goes on the run and becomes trapped in a cat-and-mouse game with the CIA, the government, and the cartel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Air Force One (1997)
When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beast (2026)
When a militia of unidentified hostiles coordinates a coup against the United States, the president must fight back by utilizing the highly classified offensive capabilities of his armored limousine, nicknamed The Beast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
No Escape (2015)
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNon-Stop (2014)
Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to kill passengers. In a race against the clock, he must identify and stop the killer to save everyone on board.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaken (2008)
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpeed (1994)
Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn the Hunt (2026)
A former military woman takes on a ruthless criminal underworld in a race against time to find her missing daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Ransom (1996)
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtraction (2020)
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMost Wanted (1997)
A Marine on death row is recruited by a shadowy U.S. military officer as part of a top-secret ops team, then gets framed for murder when the team and its officer set him up as the fall guy for the assassination of the First Lady.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisExterritorial (2025)
When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAftermath (2024)
A returning war veteran, stricken with PTSD, gets trapped with his teenage sister on Boston's Tobin Memorial Bridge when a heavily armed group of ex-military revolutionaries take everyone hostage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Best Man (2023)
Mercenaries seize control of a remote resort hotel during a wedding and it's up to the best man, the groom and their drunken best friend to stop the terrorists and save the hostages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Fugitive (1993)
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNobody (2021)
Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisWanted Man (2024)
Follows a police officer who must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her after a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, but then he must decide who to trust when they discover that the attack was executed by American forces.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBushwick (2017)
When an unknown military force invades Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood, young student Lucy and war veteran Stupe must rely on each other to escape and survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Commuter (2018)
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWings of Dread (2026)
Air police officer Gu Chaoyang encounters a hijacking crisis on his flight back to China. With his extremely high professional ethics, he fights desperately to stop the hijacker, and a life-and-death struggle that takes place at an altitude of ten thousand meters begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Blind War (2022)
A SWAT captain is permanently injured during a failed assignment and must retire. Although depressed, his daughter gives him hope, and he slowly begins to adjust to his new life. When she is kidnapped by human traffickers, he must track her down using every remaining sense and save her in this blind battle of life and death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Off the Grid (2025)
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their biggest mistake of all – they weaponize the man they are trying to catch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRun Hide Fight: Infidels (2026)
When radical Islamist terrorists hijack a liberal college's pro-Palestine encampment, a ragtag band of red-blooded students, a security guard, and a Delta Force vet must arm up to save their clueless peers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Freezer (2014)
New York city mechanic Robert Saunders is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner by Russian thugs and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's industrial freezer. This ruthless gang demand he return the $8 million he has stolen from them. The only problem Robert has no idea what they are talking about. But as the temperature drops and the terror grows, the shocking truth begins to emerge as Robert struggles to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Night Crew (2015)
A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Current Occupant (2020)
Trapped in a mysterious psychiatric ward, a man with no memory comes to believe that he’s the President of the United States and the subject of a diabolical political conspiracy. As the asylum’s soul-crushing forces bear down on him, he fights to preserve his sanity and escape so that he can return to power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Safe House?
The closest matches to Safe House are Assault on VA-33 (2021), Die Hard (1988) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Safe House?
People who watched Safe House most often go on to Assault on VA-33 (2021), Die Hard (1988) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Safe House?
Nobody (2021), rated 7.9/10 by 8,914 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Safe House?
The Beast (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Safe House?
Yes: Assault on VA-33 (2021), Die Hard (1988) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013).
How are movies similar to Safe House chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Safe House, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.